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Trump bids to ease North Korean concerns

Trump bids to ease North Korean concerns

BBC 2018-05-18 10:35:21

US President Donald Trump has contradicted his own national security adviser, saying the so-called "Libya model" for denuclearisation is not being pursued with North Korea. The suggestion by John Bol...

Mahathir says many economic data false

Mahathir says many economic data false

-- 2018-05-17 22:19:30

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday many of the figures recording the country's financial position may be false, but he did not offer any evidence or say which data he was refer...

Iran denounces US, Saudi sanctions against Hezbollah

Iran denounces US, Saudi sanctions against Hezbollah

-- 2018-05-17 22:18:08

Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out on Thursday on Twitter at the US and Saudi Arabia for imposing sanctions on leaders of its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. "Israeli snipers shoot over...

US hopeful Trump-Kim meet will go ahead

US hopeful Trump-Kim meet will go ahead

-- 2018-05-17 19:32:03

The Trump administration is hopeful that its summit with North Korea will go ahead, despite threats of cancellation. A White House spokesperson said the US president remained ready, reports BBC. Hou...

Trump terms immigrants animals, not people

Trump terms immigrants animals, not people

-- 2018-05-17 19:14:50

US President Donald Trump termed undocumented immigrants as animals, not human beings.   Trump said it at a White House meeting on Wednesday, venting frustration at officials in both Mexic...

UK rejects chances of staying in customs union after 2021

UK rejects chances of staying in customs union after 2021

Reuters 2018-05-17 15:01:17

A source in Theresa May’s Downing Street office has dismissed a media report saying that Britain would tell Brussels it was prepared to stay in the European Union’s customs union beyond 20...

US, Gulf nations hit Hezbollah with further sanctions

US, Gulf nations hit Hezbollah with further sanctions

-- 2018-05-17 14:19:30

The United States and Gulf partners imposed additional sanctions on Lebanon’s Hezbollah leadership on Wednesday, targeting its top two officials, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Naim Qassem. The US...

Ebola spreading fast in DR Congo

Ebola spreading fast in DR Congo

-- 2018-05-17 12:23:25

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a cas...

SOPA announces journalism awards finalists

SOPA announces journalism awards finalists

FE Online Desk 2018-05-17 12:10:28

The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) has announced the finalists for the SOPA 2018 Awards for Editorial Excellence. The Hong Kong-based not-for-profit organisation made the announcement on Thurs...

Trump unsure of North Korea summit

Trump unsure of North Korea summit

-- 2018-05-17 11:40:40

US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that it was unclear if his summit with North Korea would go ahead after Pyongyang threatened to pull out of the unprecedented meeting, a move that could deny...

Michigan State Univ to pay $500m to Nassar abuse victims

Michigan State Univ to pay $500m to Nassar abuse victims

-- 2018-05-17 10:52:51

Hundreds of women sexually abused by disgraced gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar have tentatively agreed to a $500 million settlement with Michigan State University, Nassar’s former employer, attor...

Malaysian cops raid five places linked to ex-PM Najib

Malaysian cops raid five places linked to ex-PM Najib

-- 2018-05-17 10:05:24

Malaysian police conducted searches through the night and into the Thursday morning at five places linked to ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak, including the family home where he stays, a senior polic...

Earthquake jolts Japan

Earthquake jolts Japan

Reuters 2018-05-17 09:49:50

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 hit eastern Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicentre of the quake was off the coast of Chiba prefecture, the agency sai...

Palestine recalls four envoys to EU countries

Palestine recalls four envoys to EU countries

-- 2018-05-16 18:56:56

Palestine has recalled its ambassadors in Romania, Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic after US embassy move. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry recalled the ambassadors on Wednesday citing those E...

Huge eruption from Hawaii volcano sparks red alert

Huge eruption from Hawaii volcano sparks red alert

-- 2018-05-16 14:41:44

Explosions intensified on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Tuesday, spewing ash and triggering a red alert for aircraft for the first time since the latest eruption began 12 days ago. Ash and volc...

Turkey asks Israel's envoy to Istanbul to leave temporarily

Turkey asks Israel's envoy to Istanbul to leave temporarily

-- 2018-05-16 12:54:19

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has told Israel’s consul general in Istanbul to return to Israel ‘for some time’, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday, after Israeli forces k...

Congo park blocks tourist entry after kidnapping

Congo park blocks tourist entry after kidnapping

-- 2018-05-16 12:03:02

Rangers said they had stopped tourists entering Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park during investigations into the kidnapping of two Britons there last week. Gunmen ambushed Ro...

Maduro vows to turn around Venezuela’s economy ahead of vote

Maduro vows to turn around Venezuela’s economy ahead of vote

-- 2018-05-16 11:12:21

Widely blamed for Venezuela’s unprecedented economic crisis, President Nicolas Maduro has vowed to make ‘great changes’ in the OPEC nation reeling from hyperinflation and shortages i...

Indonesian cops shoot dead four attackers at Riau HQ

Indonesian cops shoot dead four attackers at Riau HQ

-- 2018-05-16 10:32:17

Indonesian police shot dead four men after they used samurai swords to attack officers at Riau police headquarters in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, a police spokesman said. The men had driven their car into th...

North Korea threatens to cancel summit with Trump

North Korea threatens to cancel summit with Trump

BBC 2018-05-16 10:22:52

North Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump if the US unilaterally insists it gives up nuclear weapons. The highly anticipated meeting between Mr Trump and North K...

Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim freed from jail

Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim freed from jail

-- 2018-05-16 10:13:30

Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim has been freed from jail, paving the way for his return to politics. Once seen as a potential future leader, he had been jailed on charges of sodomy and corruption...

Australia ramps up airport security after alleged bomb plot

Australia ramps up airport security after alleged bomb plot

-- 2018-05-15 14:36:20

The Australian government has announced an upgrade in airport security around the country and an increase in police powers in response to an alleged attempt to smuggle an improvised explosive device a...

Turkey cops detain 54 ‘IS members’

Turkey cops detain 54 ‘IS members’

-- 2018-05-15 14:14:40

Turkish authorities have detained 54 suspected Islamic State members in Istanbul who were believed to be preparing to travel to conflict zones in Syria, police said on Tuesday. All of those detained...

Two Koreas to hold high-level talks Wednesday

Two Koreas to hold high-level talks Wednesday

-- 2018-05-15 13:14:31

North Korea and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to hold high-level inter-Korea talks on May 16 to discuss steps needed to uphold the pledge to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Unif...

Gaza braces for more protests after 55 Palestinians killed

Gaza braces for more protests after 55 Palestinians killed

BBC 2018-05-15 13:04:19

Fresh protests against Israel are expected in the Palestinian territories, a day after Israeli troops killed 55 people in the Gaza Strip. Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of what Palestinians call...

US condemns China for shielding Myanmar from UN action

US condemns China for shielding Myanmar from UN action

-- 2018-05-15 11:01:37

The United States has indirectly criticised China for shielding Myanmar from strong UN Security Council action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the US and other countries...

Egypt orders detention of 20 metro protesters

Egypt orders detention of 20 metro protesters

-- 2018-05-15 10:52:44

Egypt’s state security prosecutor ordered the detention of 20 people for 15 days pending an investigation into their roles in protests at Cairo metro stations last week after the government rais...

Melania Trump recovering in hospital after kidney surgery

Melania Trump recovering in hospital after kidney surgery

-- 2018-05-15 10:41:56

US First Lady Melania Trump has undergone surgery for what the White House described as a benign kidney condition. Her office said surgeons on Monday performed an embolisation procedure at the Walter...

Lima Group urges Venezuelan govt to suspend polls

Lima Group urges Venezuelan govt to suspend polls

-- 2018-05-15 10:34:37

The Lima Group of largely Latin American nations urged the Venezuelan government to suspend the presidential election scheduled for May 20, calling the process ‘illegitimate and lacking in credi...

Delhi police charges MP over wife’s death

Delhi police charges MP over wife’s death

-- 2018-05-14 21:32:26

Indian MP and former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor has been charged with aiding his wife’s suicide in 2014. Sunanda Pushkar's unexplained death was initially treated as suicide, but police later s...